06/02/2014 East Midlands Today

taken ill at a dance event tonight. There is also a first look

And now the news for the East Midlands, I'm Dominic Heale. Good

evening. First, tonight, the announcement

that's safeguarded hundreds of jobs in the region and will keep

train`making alive in Derby. That ?1 billion pound contract awarded to

Bombardier. Our reporter Simon Hare has been at the firm's factory in

the City since the details were confirmed.

1500 people work at Bombardier. The current order book lasts until next

year, but news of today's order guarantees work for the next five

years. This is a walk`through vehicle, very

similar to what the Crossrail vehicles are going to be like.

Kevin Owen has been here 27 years. He says there is real relief among

the workers that they know their future is secure.

There definitely was apprehension about not knowing, because the

uncertainty is the biggest fear. As soon as we got the news, everybody

was jumping for joy. The ?1 billion order is to provide

trains for a new Crossrail route through and under London. Bombardier

will make 65 trains which carry passengers on the line. Today, the

Secretary of State for Transport and Derbyshire Dales MP dropped in to

see where his department's investment was going. He denied it

was purely a political decision, after criticism three years ago,

after an even bigger order went to a German company.

They've won it because the management and the workforce put

together an excellent deal. They won it very overwhelmingly so. I think

it's great news for Derby, it's great news for manufacturing in the

East Midlands. This year marks the 175th

anniversary of train building in Derby. It's provided work for

generation after generation. Today's announcement means that, although

the designs may have changed, it remains 0

the designs may have changed, it remains a career and in industry for

the future. Well, Angela Dean is the Head of the

School of Technology at the University of Derby. She told me the

announcement's a real confidence booster for the city, 0

announcement's a real confidence booster for the city, and for its

next generation of engineers. When the last contract went abroad,

it was a kick in the teeth for the East Midlands.

So, this new 0 East Midlands.

So, this new contract will take forward the industry in Derby for

probably the next ten years, and then we'll be able to take it

forward for the next 30 years. The East Midlands has a great stock

of manufacturers ` Rolls`Royce, Toyota and Caterpillar. How

significant is this region on the global stage?

Well, I've travelled quite a lot for my work, and everybody knows Derby.

Everybody knows Rolls`Royce. Everybody knows Bombardier, and

everybody knows Toyota. It's one of the places that, around the world,

is known for its manufacturing industry, and the quality of

products that it produces. Of course, this is very good news

for the smaller companies in and around Derby.

Derby has a large number of high`tech businesses which are small

or medium`sized enterprises, but they feed into the wider economy,

and also into the large manufacturers in the supply chain.

This will be a huge boost to many of those companies. They'll find it a

real lifeline to take them forward. Thank you Angela.

Police investigating allegations of child sexual offences, connected to

a theatre in Leicestershire, have arrested two men. Two others have

also been banned from the Concordia in Hinckley as an investigation

takes place. The County Council has launched its own safeguarding

investigation, and says it won't issue licences for children to take

part in any forthcoming productions there.

The two people we've arrested so far are connected to the theatre, but

the offences we suspect them of committing were not committed at the

theatre itself. They were committed away from the theatre. The two

people who have been banned by the theatre at our request have

obviously not been arrested. However, information in our

possession leads us to believe that they are not fit to be part of that

theatre. There's been a huge rise in

complaints about websites offering online form`checking services. They

do very little, yet charge huge sums of money. Trading Standards in

Nottinghamshire says it's seeing unprecedented levels already this

year. Sarah Teale has more. These are independent companies

which offer some kind of checking service for applications, like

passports or tax returns. But, the problem is, they are designed to

look like the official website, so people don't realise they're paying

for something they may not even need. Nottinghamshire Trading

Standards say the problem is escalating. Throughout the whole of

last year, they received 41 complaints about this sort of

practice. So far, this year, they've already received 24 complaints. I've

been speaking to Rebecca Hardiman from West Bridgford in Nottingham `

she lost hundreds of pounds after filling in her annual tax return

form. I googled tax return HMRC, and at

the very top there was this tax return gateway. I went through and

filled it in, and then at the end they asked me for ?400.

Did you think you were just paying the tax that you owed?

I did think so, and I couldn't understand why it came out at ?400.

It would have been nothing like that. I was horrified. I was really

annoyed with myself because I'm usually really careful.

What do you think about the company itself?

It's just borderline legal, but it's so deceptive.

Rebecca hasn't had her money back, and the website involved has

suspended operations. But there are many similar companies out there

offering services for driving licences, European health forms,

visas and passports. To avoid these checking companies, make sure you

get to the official government website. You will know you were

there because they always end in .gov.uk. Make sure you see that on

the web address and you should be OK.

That's your news. So, it's goodbye from me ` but with your weather,

now, here's Anna Church. B and several theme is set to

continue into the weekend. A brief respite tomorrow afternoon. `` be

unsettled theme. The rain is with us quite heavily and persistently at

the moment. Where we already have the saturated ground, The Met office

have issued a yellow warning. Some mild `` a mild night with lows of

four degrees. Lights, patchy rain first thing tomorrow morning, but

that starts to clear away. Long spells of sunshine during the

afternoon, and it will be breezy with a top temperature of seven.

Looking at your outlook, it is going to be quite wet on Friday night into

Saturday, with some blustery showers and strong winds on Saturday. An

improvement on is one day. Hello. I think the impact of this

wet weather could be felt more widely as time goes on, even in

areas which have been unscathed up until now. For now, the focus is on

southern England. We have amber weather warnings right through until

Saturday. We have another storm heading in. They are queueing up in

the Atlantic. The storms will take place of this one which is giving a

current spell of what weather this evening and overnight. Wet and

windy, particularly through the English Channel. The rain falling

snow across higher ground of northern England and Wales. Further

north, rather quite a picture across Scotland and Northern Ireland. A

touch of frost so icy patches are more of a hazard through the early

part of tomorrow morning. Chilly across